Well, the room was big, I mean it seated over 3k. Thats basicly a seat for everyone at the con. I think there was alot of ppl at first but alot started to leave and in the end I think theres was only a couple hundred left. Brad did his best to entertain, maybe tired a little too hard. The judges seemed to just like talking about porn, and I sorta left with sppanda to play video games for awhile >_>

Ermacs vid was ok. He somehow guessed the secret ingredient, and used a techno version of a lupin song, and only used lupin which is fine, but he only used the chase scene which got dull.
Tim used them all, had lots of guns to use the theme well, and song weapon of choice was good too. He didnt finish two scenes which just paused for a few seconds (for lip synch as he said) but was still better if you ask me.

Thank you so much for putting that in your sig, Tim. Now every time I read your posts I'll think of that conversation and start seeing Vlad stripping again. *shudder*

As for the contest, yea I lost. I didn't make a guns video. Whether or not mine was better is irrelevant since the judges wanted a guns video and I failed to produce one. C'est la vie. At least this means I don't have to go through that hell again next year.

And yea I guess the secret ingredient, or at least I had a hunch it'd be Lupin just cause theme was guns and judging by previous Iron Chefs Quu always liked to pick either oddball or old stuff as the secret ingredient. Plus the contest was sponsored by Manga and so I figured Castle of Cagliostro might be the secret ingredient. I had no idea I would be dead on. But hey - in the end it didn't help me at all, really. Still lost. Oh well, nice one Tim

I'm brand new to the AMV field so it was great to get a chance to meet Tim and sit in the "AMV creator" section at Fanime 8) . But during Iron Chef, having that second preview monitor was pretty cool. If anyone can direct me to some sort of guide that could help me achieve that kind of set-up...?

Anyway, I thought your video was awesome ErMaC. My favorite part of the contest though had to be that Jin-Roh soldier walking with his gun to the beat of the music - too cool.